Designing your new home starts well before construction actually begins. Sometimes it starts even before your lot is cleared. The reason is that design is much more than choosing the countertops and paint color (though that is part of the process). Designing your home is about choosing the layout that works best for your family—and
International Builders’ Show 2018: Hot Products from the Showroom Floor
The International Builders’ Show® (IBS) is the largest annual light construction show in the world, every year attracting 60,000 visitors from 100 countries. IBS brings together more than 1,500 top manufacturers and suppliers from around the globe showcasing the latest and most in-demand products and services. Here are the products that had everyone talking on
How to Create a Tactile Experience in Your New Home
Humans are born with five natural senses, and the nervous system has a specific sensory organ dedicated to each one. These senses connect us to the outside world, and although their primary purpose is to keep the body safe and healthy, our natural instincts also allow us to engage with both living and inanimate objects.
Design Encyclopedia: Know Your Home’s Windows
The commercial market, functional considerations, and aesthetic basis for your home’s windows can all be totally overwhelming. The countless number of choices available to buyers is a double-edged sword with unlimited capability to customize your selection, but a potential pitfall in making decisions relative to one another. To help you navigate this realm, we’ve compiled
The Great Outdoors: Tips to Make the Most of Your Exterior Living Spaces
The indoor-outdoor connection is one of the most vital and potentially unique aspects of your home’s design. As we’ve written about previously, your home’s relationship to its surroundings is shaped by the elements that bridge the gap, with the spaces outside often considered as an extension of those inside. Whether it’s for entertaining or relaxation,
New Interior Design Trends for 2017
These directives are moving the design marketplace to a clean, minimal and contemporary design styling that appeals to a broad market. Refine We are seeing refinement in furniture lines, art, appliance and finishes everywhere in the industry — design is clean, simple, crisp, fresh. A perfect example of refining is the toilet! Whatever brand you
Something for Everyone: A Survey of Generational Design Trends for 2016
This year is poised to be a big one for building and real estate! All signs point to the largest annual increase in new home construction since 2006, with a particularly unique population of buyers changing the face (literally) of the national housing market. Three generations will have the largest impact on sales this year,
‘Choices Galore’ From the Region’s Finest Homebuilders, Planned and Active Adult Communities
The Washington, D.C., area is home to more homebuilders than almost any other large metropolitan area. That’s critical for homeshoppers because it translates to choices, lots and lots of choices, as you prepare to make one of the biggest purchases of your life. You’ll find builders and communities of every shape and size here. National
Building with the Best Just Got Easier with Our FREE Supplement
You know that you’re ready to move, and you’ve picked out the perfect location, so the next step is to decide who is going to help you build your new home and turn your dream into reality. With all of the homebuilders in the area, it can be a bit overwhelming when it comes to
2014 Great American Living Award Winners
The GALA (Great American Living Awards) program is the most prestigious residential design and architecture, sales, interior merchandising and marketing competition in the metropolitan Washington market. New Homes Guide is proud to have been the “Central Bar Sponsor” of the 2014 GALA and would like to recognize the winners. We honor those at the forefront